Cosgrove, Charles H.,

Fortune and faith in old Chicago : a dual biography of Mayor Augustus Garrett and seminary founder Eliza Clark Garrett / Charles H. Cosgrove. - Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource (xi, 306 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Newburgh beginnings -- Prosecuted and put to cost -- The great fairy land of fortunes -- Crash and conversion -- The politician -- Their separate spheres -- The founder.

"Augustus Garrett and Eliza Clark Garrett were a very influential couple in old Chicago. Augustus served two terms as mayor of Chicago. The story of his wife Eliza, the chronicle of a spiritual journey, reflects the struggles of sincere, pious women to come to terms with tragedy in an age when most people attributed every unhappy event as divinely determined"--



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Garrett, Augustus, 1801-1848.
Garrett, Eliza Clark, 1805-1855.


Garrett Biblical Institute--History.


Mayors--Illinois--Chicago--Biography.
Women philanthropists--Illinois--Chicago--Biography.


Electronic Books.

F548 / .F678 2020